Express track 9th Ave. "L" – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Express track 9th Ave. "L" comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Express track 9th Ave. "L"
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The Ninth Avenue Elevated in Manhattan is the subject here, with an express train identified in the title as running on its track. Elevated lines like this one were built in the late nineteenth century to carry New York's growing population above the street, and the Ninth Avenue line ran along the West Side of the city for decades before it was torn down in the 1930s and 1940s. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made up of glass negatives from the Bain News Service, a press agency that photographed city life for newspapers. The date is not recorded, so the exact year is unknown, but the glass plate format points to the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,822 × 3,316 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21008 |
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